Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Abysmal road conditions choke Chandanagar

-Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

Nowhere to hide: A woman covers her nose from being exposed to the flying dust near Chandanagar on Monday.

HYDERABAD: It is almost last of the city’s periphery stretch and heavy traffic meanders its way to different inter-State destinations such as Mumbai, Shirdi, Pune and parts of Karnataka. In the wake of real estate boom, the last couple of years also saw Chandanagar metamorphose from a sleepy and outlying suburb into a buzzing residential nerve centre. Scores of colonies have sprung here and the local vehicular movement too has gone up manifold.

However, the increasing vehicular traffic has been forced to use a road whose layers keep peeling off regularly at places and offers them a rather bumpy ride. A patch near the road intersection close to Vijetha Super Market has come off a couple of weeks back and since then has been giving horrendous times for commuters.

The recent rains have turned this part of the road into a muddy patch and throwing the traffic into chaos. Since the stretch is used by all sorts of vehicles, from two-wheelers to long distance trucks and buses, the disruption is felt by all and has been resulting in choking of their movement. The stretch during rains turn into a slushy cesspool and in a bid to avoid it, the traffic could be found jammed on this part of the highway. Since it also abuts the road intersection allowing a right and U-turn for vehicles coming from both sides, the sight of two-wheelers getting perilously stuck between heavy vehicles is a common one. The divider from HUDA colony entry till Ramachandrapuram police station too has several small openings which are used by the pedestrians and two-wheelers to cross over. This results in them landing straight in front of speeding heavy vehicles and facing the risk of being hit.

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